Networks
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Meanwhile: Outside the Box
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Serial, point-to-point communications….
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Busses and Bridges in Modern Computers
FPGA
(usually)
goes here
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Generalizing Buses…
Communication Topologies
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Quadratic-cost Topologies
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Mesh Topologies
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Logarithmic Latency Networks
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Communication Topologies: Latency
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The future
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